Guns & blowing stuff up

[PegLeg45]

pictures from a trip to Japan from Hawaii. we had a hull crack caused by the seas and the captain refusing to slow down despite warnings from the chief engineer. and these guys are supposed to know what they're doing. they take classes and train for this and they still screw up.

OH, HELL NO...!!!!!!!!!!...................... so saith the 'Landlubber' ............          

[tumblebug]

Nice Tanker 

[Green Mountain Gringo]

Funny where U Tube takes ya..... Old Aircraft Carrier crashes....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpCLeWqY0w&NR=1

[deepwater]

Nice Tanker 

eight years old and just under 600 feet long. carries around 37,000 tons of cargo. mostly diesel fuel and aviation fuel for the Navy

[Timothy]

Thats about 600 feet shorter than a Nimitz class carrier.....don't turn too quick does she!

 

[Sponsor]

[deepwater]

Thats about 600 feet shorter than a Nimitz class carrier.....don't turn too quick does she!

depends on how fast she's going. has both bow and stern thrusters. don't really need tug boats to get in and out of port, but it sure is safer and quicker with them.

[blackwolfe]

That was why the 4 and 5 masted sailing ships did not last, bow and stern would lift on waves and middle would break.

Don't remember if this is what caused the Edmund Fitzgerald to sink, but it was one of the theroies at one time.  A guy I knew from college named David Weiss, nicknamed Cowboy, was lost in the sinking along with Tom Bentsen from my hometown.

[deepwater]

Don't remember if this is what caused the Edmund Fitzgerald to sink, but it was one of the theroies at one time.  A guy I knew from college named David Weiss, nicknamed Cowboy, was lost in the sinking along with Tom Bentsen from my hometown.

I also knew one of the coasties involved in the search. I was on a ship that carried the same cargo, (iron) and the big worry was that the stuff shifts alot. due to the wait of the material you can't fill the cargo hold and so there's a lot of area for it to shift causing instability. of course we won't know what happened to the 'Fitzgerald' because there are so many possibilties.

[blackwolfe]

Deepwater,
I went to Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City which also housed the Great Lakes Maritime Accademy.  My first year roomate was a Maritimer, so I met a lot of the students in that program.  When the Fitz was lost and I heard that David Weiss was one of the cadets from the program and was lost I didn't know who they were talking about.  Until that time I had only known him as Cowboy.  Cowboy was a good person.  We had a memorial service on the docks at the Maritime Accademy to honor David Weiss and the rest of the crew.  It's been along time ago, but I beleive that Tom Bentsen from my hometown had also attended the Accademy, but that was before my time.  I was fortuneate one time to have by chance been at the Soo locks when the Fitz came through.

[deepwater]

Blackwolfe:
I to have lost friends at sea, in fact been involved in searching for them. it's always difficult not knowing if they are still out there waiting to be picked up when you stop looking. anyway, I know what you feel when you remember your friends and the Fitz. My 1st engineer on the ship studied there as well and still lives in Michigan, the maritime world is very small.